Working with JWTs in Laravel (Without the Magic)
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If you've worked with APIs, authentication, or third-party integrations, you've almost certainly run into JWTs (JSON Web Tokens). JWT (pronounced: JOT) is a compact string used to pass data between systems. It has three base64url-encoded parts separated by dots: header, payload, and signature. The header defines metadata like the algorithm, the payload contains claims such as user id and expiration, and the signature ensures integrity. The header and payload can be decoded into JSON for quick i